{"id":10563,"date":"2017-07-31T08:04:43","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leavittbrothers.com\/blog\/?p=10563"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:04:43","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T13:04:43","slug":"before-the-open-jul-31-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/?p=10563","title":{"rendered":"Before the Open (Jul 31)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. <\/span>
\n The Asian\/Pacific<\/strong> markets closed mostly up. China, Hong Kong, India and New Zealand led the way; Malaysia and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East<\/strong> are currently mostly up. Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and Romania are doing the best; Greece is weak. Futures in the States<\/strong> point towards a positive open for the cash market. <\/span>
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\n The dollar is down. Oil is down; copper is up. Gold and silver are mixed and little changed. Bonds are down. <\/span>
\nStock headlines<\/strong> from barchart.com…<\/span>
\n Oppenheimer raised its 2017 year-end target for the S&P 500 to 2,650 from a prior forecast of 2,450.<\/span>
\n Wells Fargo (WFC -2.58%) was upgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Underperform’ at BMO Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n American Airlines Group (AAL +0.98%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Market Perform’ at Cowen with a price target of $57.<\/span>
\n Citigroup (C -0.25%) was downgraded to ‘Market Perform’ from ‘Outperform’ at BMO Capital Markets.<\/span>
\n Hilton Worldwide Holdings (HLT -0.16%) was upgraded to ‘Hold’ from ‘Sell’ at Berenberg.<\/span>
\n Virtus Investment Partners (VRTS -2.41%) was upgraded to ‘Outperform’ from ‘Neutral’ at Credit Suisse with a price target of $147.<\/span>
\n Facebook (FB +1.18%) was downgraded to ‘Sell’ from ‘Hold’ at Pivotal.<\/span>
\n Celgene (CELG -0.04%) was upgraded to ‘Buy’ from ‘Hold’ at Argus Research with a price target of $160.<\/span>
\n Hertz Global Holdings (HTZ -0.17%) was downgraded to ‘Underweight’ from ‘Equalweight’ at Barclays.<\/span>
\n ANI Pharma (ANIP +0.89%) was initiated a new ‘Buy’ at Canaccord Genuity with a price target of $60.<\/span>
\n Tesla (TSLA +0.18%) on Friday night delivered its first mass-market Model 3 electric vehicles with a price tag of $44,000 and a higher-than-expected 310-mile range.<\/span>
\n Kearny Financial (KRNY -0.34%) reported in-line EPS of 5 cents.<\/span>
\n Ironwood Pharma (IRWD +5.71%) rallied 6% on a positive research note by Wells Fargo.<\/span>
\n Today’s Economic Calendar<\/strong>
\n 9:45 Chicago PMI
\n 10:00 Pending Home Sales
\n 10:30 Dallas Fed Manufacturing Survey
\n 3:00 Farm Prices<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
\nOther<\/strong>…<\/span>
\ntoday’s upgrades\/downgrades<\/a> from briefing.com<\/span>
\nthis week’s Earnings<\/a><\/span> from Morningstar
\nthis week’s Economic Numbers\/Reports<\/a><\/span> powered by ECONODAY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Good morning. Happy Monday. Hope you had a good weekend. The Asian\/Pacific markets closed mostly up. China, Hong Kong, India and New Zealand led the way; Malaysia and the Philippines were weak. Europe, Africa and the Middle East are currently mostly up. Poland, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy and Romania are doing the best; Greece is weak. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.leavittbrothers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}